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J. BECK REFRIGERATOR Filed March 2. 1928 June 9, 1931.

Patented June 9,- 1931 I l y UNITED 4STATES"rirlenr OFFICE JOHN BECK, F ASHLAND, WISCONSIN REFRIGERATOR.

Application led March 2, 1928. Serial No. 258,494.

This invention relates to refrigerators in wardly beneath the rack and towards the side general and particularly, though not excluwall to carry the drip from the ice to the sively, to refrigerators which are of the type drain 14 which leads to a suitable receptacle known as side icers. or pipe line (not shown). rlhis pan is con- It has been found that the'air circulation nected air-tight to the division wall 7 and to within the refrigerator governs the amount the back of the refrigerator to prevent the ot ice required to be used. If the air circulapassage ot' air at the jointsV Where it is contion within the refrigerating compartment nei-tediotliese parts. A' is poor the ice will melt rapidly but the tem- A skeleton trame 15 made of slats or other perature within the refrigerator will be. above suitable means is spaced from the wall 2, and @o that required to properly preserve the food a similar frame 16 spaced from' the-division and prevent it from spoiling. By providing lwall 7 to space the ice from these walls and a proper circulation of air the ice will melt also to provide cooling passages 17 and 18. at the proper rate to maintain desired low 'l`he frame 1li is spaced relatively far from preservingtemperature. 'the division wall 7 and the passage 18 is sub- 55 The present invention has for its object stantially twice as wide as the passage 17. A to provide improved means for circulating projecting ledge or baille 19, having a curved air about the ice so that the currents of air underside 20, deflects the air from the paswill come in contact with a relatively .large sages 17 and 18 to the common passage 21.

20 surface area of ice. This ledge or bailie is substantially triangular 70 Another object of the invention is to pro-A in cross-section, having a downwardly and vide novel means for deflecting the currents inwardly inclined top connecting with'the of air so' that a constant circulation of cold upper end ot the curved side 2O at a point air is assured as long as there is any ice in above the lower end of the drip pan 13. An

the ice chamber. inclined top member, or plate., 22 is arranged 75 And' another object is to provide a new above the food and ice chambers to direct the and novel arrangement of the drip pan and air currents from the food chamber over the ice rack to obtain a constant' circulation. of division wall 7 to 'the ice chamber above the air about the ice and in the refrigerator. `ice therein.

The accompanying drawings illu-strate a. Since the passage 18 is substantially twice 8@ selected embodiment of the invention and the as large as the passage 17, approximately views therein are as follows: sixty percent of the circulating air will pass Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of a refrigertherethrough and be cooled. rlhe current ator embodying my invention. of air discharging at the bottom of passage Fig. 2 is a detail plan section on the line 18 will be deiected by the inclined pan 18 g5 2-2 of Fig. 1. and pass under the ice and be further cooled Referring 'to the drawings, 1 designates a thereby. Approximately 60 per cent of the refrigerator of any suitable size, shape and air transmitted passes under the ice and comes construction and having insulated side walls in direct contact with the underside of it,

40 2,2, atop 3, abottom 4, a front-5 and aback 6. thereby carrying and distributing the cold 90 A division wall 7 is arranged substantially units equally throughout the cooling chamintermediate the sidewalls and provides an ber. rlfhe drip from the rack also has a coolice chamber -8 and a food chamber 9. ing effect on the air and also cleanses it by Shelves 10 are arranged in a portion of the absorbing and carrying away odors and gases food chamber as shown. therefrom.

A rack 11, preferably of open or lattice The remainder of the circulating air will construction, is suitably arranged at the botpass through the passage 17 and be cooled tom of the ice chamber 8 to support a cake of therein. The ledge 19 detlects the air from ice 12. An insulated drip pan 13 is fixed to both passages 17, 18 through the common the division wall 7 and it inclines downpassage 21 into the food chamber. By proion 4:from one of said sides and forming air pasviding an inclined top member 22 I maintain a constant circulation of air within the refrigerator and eliminate stagnant warm air pockets. Y

I have provided a refrigerator ili which a' constant circulation of clean cold air is maintained, and which maintains a lower temperatureand uses less ice ffor cooling urposes than the conventionallty/pehof re rigerator.

I am aware that changes in the form, construction and arrangen'ient of the parts may j be made wi-thout departing. from the sco e, or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of the 1n- 4 vention and I reserve the right to make allesuch changes as 'fairly fall withinthe scope of the following claims. Y

1. A refrigerator comprising a top and bottom, front and back, and two sides, a di-s partment, an insulated drip pan connected air tight to one of said walls and to said vback and inclined downwardly toward the other wall, the lower side of said pan being spaced from said other wall to form an air passage,

and a curved baille on said other walland spaced from the lower side of the an to deflectthe air downwardly through said passage. e

5. In a refrigerator comprisinga food chamber andan ice chamber with a division wall therebetween spaced from the top of Y said refrigerator to provide in'lercommunication between said food and ice con1part,

ments, said division wall also being spaced from the bottom of said refrigerator, means providing vertically extending fines disposed on op oslte sides of said ice chamber, one of sal fines being disposed along said division yall and the other of said fines being vision wall intermediate said sides,-skeleton "ifdisposed along the wall of said refrigerator frames spaced from said division wall and sages, a rack b'elow said frames for supportto said division wall and to said ackand having an air-tight connection therewith, and spaced from a side to form a passage communicating with the space below said dri pan, an inclined member arranged beneatli said top, and a baflle fixed to one of said side walls between the rack and the normal plane of the drip pan.

/ 2. A. refrigerator comprising a top and bottom, front and back, and two sides, a division wall, a skeleton frame spaced-from one of said side walls to form an air assage, a

Opposite thereto, means for supporting ice inl said ice compartment between said flues, and van insulating deflecting' member extending lng a cake of ice, an inclineddrip an fixed from the lower end of said division wall below said supporting member, another deflectin member disposed below the flue on said si e wall of said refrigerator, said flues being arranged in spacedapart relation to provide an openinr whereby air passing through said flues and into engagement with said deflectors will be directed by said deflectors across, and below said supportino' means toward said opening to pass therethrough into said food compartment.

JOHN BECK.

skeleton frame spaced from the divlsion wall tween said rack and connected air-tight to the bottom of said division wall and to said back and spaced from one of said side walls to form an air passa e communicating directlyl with the s ace elow the drip pan, a

.baille arranged a o ve said last named passage and below the rack and deiiecting air from both of said first named passages and through said last named communicating passage, and an inclined member beneath said top for deflecting air to bothrlof said first named passages.

3. In a refrigerator, means for supporting a cake of ice, means for deflectin'ga current of air in said refrigerator along and in direct contact with one side andthe bottom of the ice, means for deflecting a current Aof air in direct contact with and over the top of the ice and along the other side thereof, and means for deflecting the air from both of said sources through alcommon passage.

4. In a refrigerator having oppositely disposed walls and a back forming an ice com- 

